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I run 16 Bit Virtual Studios. You can find more reviews from me on YouTube youtube.com/@16bitvirtual or other social media @16bitvirtual, and we sell our 3D Printed stuff on 16bitstore.com

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In most non Apple Desktops, the most you'd get from connecting your iPad/iPhone is access to the photos and videos. You'd need to use iTunes to access the music or device documents.

On Macs it "Just works" and gives you full access to music and files.

While I can't access my iPads videos and music in Mint. It's nice to at least get me access to the documents, along side the camera videos and pictures. Not as good as I'd like it to be, but a lot better than what you can do with Windows... without installing iTunes.

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According to a brief Google search: Apple File Conduit (AFC)

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Oh how I wish I had nemo on the iPad rather than apple's own files app. The issue with SMB is getting files off of the iPad, this is a little easier for me since I can do so from my PC. And I'm not dealing with Apple's files app silently crashing on me.

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Buy some games on discount. I can easily get Fallout 4, or about 7-10 other games on steep discount. PC gaming is the best.

the16bitgamer ,
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I think how happy I am depends on what I am comparing it too.

Compared to Windows? I am very happy with Mint since thus far everything I need works, and I can even play some games.

Compared to my dream distro which doesn't exist. Not as happy. Since it works, but asks me to use the terminal more than I want to.

the16bitgamer ,
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If you want me to make you feel old the hardware was released in 2013, making it over 10 years old this year.

the16bitgamer ,
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While I understand your argument. I have my own philosophy for what is retro in terms of games.

For me I don't look at the system but the games. And for games it about 10-15 years after they were first released.

Enough time that kids can be born and never see this game until now. While I wouldn't call Pokemon Sun/Moon retro just yet. The 3ds/2ds has games on it that I would consider it retro.

Its been over half a decade since Nintendo stopped making games for it, and even longer since people cared about it.

The only time I will argue something isn't retro is when its still on the store shelf and not in the discount bin.

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I too do not understand social media. The best I get is it’s about people shouting into a void and hoping someone else heard you to interact with it, by repeating it, liking it, or shouting back at you.

Hashtags are the only way to organize these posts and you need to add them or no one else will hear your shouts into the void.

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I too considered that, but as I have been unlucky I'll probably run into an issue where the power from the wall was bad and I would need to buy a new house, I felt it was safer to keep the original CPU, since it still worked.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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Mostly a guess as to prove it is outside of my reach. The CPU was new out of the box, and there are a lot of reports from Reddit, and other tech forums about Gigabyte B350M boards having issues with Ryzen 5000. I forgot where I this tidbit came from, but from my understanding, Ryzen 5000 has a larger instruction set, which first gen Ryzen Motherboard BIOS Storage didn't have the space for. Some boards would loose functionality for Ryzen 1000 if they wanted to use Ryzen 5000.

So I feel it's a safe assumption that at least with my board it probably was an issue. Wasn't going to dig deeper when my 1600x still worked and I was within the 15 return period.

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  1. cuz my pc had a spot for a floppy drive.

  2. have a few old pcs laying around which makes my life easier to have.

It has a internal usb to floppy drive adapter so everything works

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Original RAM was $150CAD before taxes, with tax $172.49CAD. My New RAM was $80 with tax. Love me a good sale.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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Need to keep an eye on that when/if I upgrade.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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I don't think I've run into any games that actually demanded 32GB of RAM. Video editing and maybe coding, but not games... for now.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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Actually this was for an upgrade on my current PC from 2017. I've been running 16GB since my last build.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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Been using 16GB of RAM since ddr3. Kept using it since it was more than enough, now I’ve finally exceeded it.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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Yeah AI will do that.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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YouTube video making. Id say 3D modeling but freecad doesn’t use that much ram… yet.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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Wow almost sounds like my first rig, though swap the intel with an AMD. The rig this RAM is for is my 2nd PC, since my Motherboard was compatible with exactly one other CPU, and it's still going strong despite being from 2017.

I've Installed multiple Linux Distros on my Editing Rig to see how well Davinci Resolve Studio works. Here are the results.

So a couple of weeks ago, I made this post asking for help from those who used Linux and Davinci Resolve, and their experience. To those who's response was effectively "I use arch btw", I hear you, but that wasn't the question I wanted to ask....

the16bitgamer ,
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When I read this, my dyslexic read luxuries as linux

the16bitgamer ,
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7800 since it can play both 2600 and 7800 games. But most importantly Ninja Golf

the16bitgamer ,
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All of them, but if I had an order.

E-Books for series I like and for day to day reading

Audiobooks for series which I want read to me

And Physical Book for series I adore and want the complete physical set.

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For those wondering if this is under exaggerated, it's not. Now my experience is on the Switch.

This issues I saw in my time before I got refunded was as follow. Texture Flickering and Shadow Flickering (hard to see as a screen shot so this is the worse I saw)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/08206a09-a6e3-49ee-8143-3663bff5f81f.png

Textures that are still in 4:3 and not 16:9

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b7b25934-dcd0-4685-b4ca-348adb7cb85b.png

Random Texture floating when they shouldn't be

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2fabf445-dbed-41a3-9f36-f368a51b442e.png

The lighting failing on the Bridges on the Naboo Map

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6eb4a734-e948-40bb-a12d-889f45daac0a.png

And the FMV's being so compressed you can see the compression artifacting (and this is a game that ~34GB)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fc0704b0-77dc-452b-a953-2cfb3e106d41.png

the16bitgamer ,
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This is on iOS. There is no Firefox (geko) or Chromium, there is only skins of Safari so your point is moot. For now.

Planning on moving over from Windows 10 to Linux for my Personal Work Station. Can't decide which OS I should switch to.

Windows has been a thorn in my side for years. But ever since I started moved to Linux on my Laptop and swapping my professional software to a cross platform alternative, I've been dreaming on removing it from my SSD....

the16bitgamer ,
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I think you should find games first. No point in owning an NES without finding something to play on it. But if you are looking for opinion on the hardware itself.

I own all 3 systems.

Atari 7800: isn't fare to compare it to a NES or Master System. Think of it as a suped up 2600. Great system if you use the European controller or a Sega 9pin controller. Game selection is good but limited. Best way to play 2600 games. Rf only sucks but can be modded. I'd get it if there are 2600 or 7800 games you wanna play. But the Atari 50th collection has pretty much everything you'd want to play on it.

NES: is a good system for the time, but hasn't aged well. Getting games to work has turned into a ritual for me. But when they work you'll have access to the best games from the late 80's and early 90's. Controller has aged like fine wine. Most of its non-nintendo library can be found elsewhere for cheap while the Nintendo games are behind a subscription service. Not many games exclusive these days but worth playing anyways

Master System: the NES we have at home. Mostly a similar library of games to the NES but are sometimes better, sometimes worse. Depends on the publisher. In north america it was forgotten and game selection was limited. Controller is mushy but a genesis controller can fix that.

Out of the 3 the master system is probably the best experience, but the NES has the best games.

the16bitgamer ,
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In North America the NES isn't a top loader and due to the mechanism they used the pins ware out, especially after 35-40 years. On top of that there is very little in the NES Library that's only on the NES these days. If I hadn't already invested in an NES and games, I'd just get the NES Classic and be done with it. If I wanted extra games I'd get collections like the Castlevaina Collection, The Mega Man one, and Disney Afternoon. You can extract the ROMs from these collections and put them on the NES Classic if you are willing to fiddle.

Meanwhile the master system is often times forgotten, but has a similar library for third party games. And what unique games does have are rarely found elsewhere as the master system version. Let alone the European releases like Sonic the Hedgehog.

With that said, I prefaced this with "Find games first" for a reason. The master system has a smaller library of games, and if OP was looking for games more like Dragon Quest Warrior or Final Fantasy, then a system with only Phantasy Star would be a bad choice.

the16bitgamer ,
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This is a Tesla right? Those door handles are electric, so you need to hope the cars electrics hold and not short. Or you can find the emergency release in the door pocket.

the16bitgamer ,
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Ah I was confusing the front and rear doors. From this video it looks like it's in the door arm rests, while the rear door is burred in the rear door pocket under a flap. Both appear to operate the latch manually so no electricity required.

the16bitgamer ,
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Ascendance of a Bookworm, shoutout to !aoblightnovel

I’ve never been one for reading. Even for books with movies I love, I always found reading books myself a chore.

But when I saw the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime, I wanted to know what was going to happen after the season ended. This lead me to the Manga, which was behind at the time, then the light novel.

The word is rich and it has a depth that isn’t daunting. The character you meet feel like they have their own lives, and the sheer number of side stories which isn’t about our main character is wonderful.

This was the series the made me get an eReader just for the books and the many spin offs. And I now preorder it to get the prerelease chapters to get my bookworm fix every mynesday.

The translation work is amazing the story is my cup of tea, and I will recommend it to those who want something new.

Word of warning to those with Prusa MK4 and Satin beds. There is a chance that the auto bed leveler will mess up and destroy your print surface. ( lemmy.world )

I've tried to report the issue to Prusa support but they keeps trying to diagnose it as user error. But at this point I'm at a loss and presume that it's either a firmware issue or a sensor issue on my unit....

the16bitgamer OP ,
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Living in a 30 year old apartment for 5 years and no way to do repairs. It was liked this when I moved in.

$1,500 CAD/Month (current market $2000) Welcome to Halifax, NS!

the16bitgamer ,
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There’s nothing rugged enough out there. Over a long enough time it will die. My two cents would be to minimize physical connectors or makes covers to protect them.

My shop (not wood) uses an old, obsolete and honestly useless Microsoft Surface tablet, since

A it has no fan just a hinge

B 2 charging ports with usb c and the magnetic charger

C Bluetooth which u can get a cheap membrane something that will work, and a Bluetooth mouse.

D has a touch screen as a fallback.

Linux is pretty good on it with a gnome based distro and it has enough Horsepower to run FreeCAD.

That said even if u don’t like Microsoft I believe Walmart or something similar offers 2 in 1 windows laptops that have the same or worse specs. That’ll do.

the16bitgamer ,
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SUP

the16bitgamer OP ,
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I figured that out by the end of the game, the first warp room is a breeze.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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That's what I've heard too. Though Crash isn't my cup of Tea. Hope we get a new Spyro game, but with the issues around Toys for Bob I'm doubtful.

the16bitgamer OP ,
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Hey I back up my games.

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